--- title: Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better? — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ask a class «is the world getting better?» and it splits in half, and both halves can brin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, sp… # Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better? Lesson 79 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/0/) — Ask a class «is the world getting better?» and it splits in half, and both halves can bring real evidence: fewer children die, more go to school and fewer people are very poor than ever before, yet the planet is warming, many wild animal numbers have fallen, and wars, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, still destroy lives. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/1/) — The researcher Max Roser put it in three sentences that are all true at once: the world is much better, the world is awful, and the world can be much better. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/3/) — There are real stories of fixing things together: countries agreed in 1987 to ban the chemicals eating the ozone layer, and it is slowly healing; solar power became about ten times cheaper in ten years; vaccines for COVID-19 were ready within a year. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/4/) — Unlike Europa Universalis, which stops in 1821, the real game has no end date and no single player: governments, scientists and millions of ordinary people, kids included, all move the pieces together. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/5/) — The Earth is about 1.2 to 1.3 °C warmer than in the late 1800s, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas; 2024 was the first calendar year reported above 1.5 °C warmer. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/6/) — Scientists agree that humans are causing the warming; people still argue about how fast to change and who should pay. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/7/) — In 1987 countries agreed in the Montreal Protocol to ban chemicals that damaged the ozone layer, and the ozone layer is slowly healing. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/8/) — Solar power became about ten times cheaper between 2010 and 2020: what cost ten pounds in 2010 cost about one pound in 2020. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/9/) — The United Nations was founded in 1945 with 51 countries and now has 193; in its Security Council five countries can each block any decision alone, called a veto, which many people criticise, and it often cannot stop wars. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/10/) — Some researchers say deaths in wars between countries fell after 1945; others point to recent years with more fighting, like Russia's war on Ukraine since 2014 and its full-scale invasion in 2022, so whether the world is more peaceful is contested. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/11/) — More than 600 people have been to space; 12 walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972, and the International Space Station has had people on board since 2000. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/12/) — AI helped scientists predict the shapes of proteins, the tiny building parts of every living thing, work that won a Nobel Prize in 2024; people also worry about jobs, fake videos and safety. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/13/) — COVID-19 vaccines were made within a year in 2020, faster than ever before, by using many years of earlier research. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/14/) — Many wild animal populations have fallen since 1970; experts argue about exactly how much. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/15/) — Health, schooling and poverty have improved a lot; climate and nature are worse or at risk; Max Roser says the world is much better, awful, and can be much better, all at once. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/16/) — News reports sudden bad events, while slow good changes rarely make headlines, so the world can seem worse than the data shows. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/17/) — Kids can learn, share ideas and make small changes, but big problems need many people and governments, so children should not carry them alone. - ← previous: [Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich/) - next →: [Games vs history: tech trees, barbarians, empty lands, wonders and falls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/80-games-vs-history-tech-trees-barbarians-empty-lands-wonders-and-falls/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)